Time Sharing Option Jobs with Work from Home Options

IBM Time Sharing Option (TSO)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Time Sharing Option skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Time Sharing Option over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 659 858
Rank change year-on-year +89 +199 -282
Permanent jobs citing Time Sharing Option 5 1 3
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.015% 0.002% 0.004%
As % of the System Software category 0.12% 0.017% 0.022%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £55,500
25th Percentile £68,000 - £60,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,000 - £70,000
75th Percentile £74,000 - £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
UK median annual salary £70,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.46% -7.14% -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

Time Sharing Option is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,252 6,025 13,535
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 12.58% 14.85% 18.99%
Number of salaries quoted 3,354 4,459 7,695
10th Percentile £31,325 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -2.40% +8.70%
75th Percentile £70,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £95,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Time Sharing Option
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Time Sharing Option as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Time Sharing Option trend for jobs with a WFH option

Time Sharing Option
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Time Sharing Option.

Time Sharing Option salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Time Sharing Option
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) SAS
2 1 (20.00%) CICS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
1 1 (20.00%) Easytrieve
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Programmer
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Programmer
1 2 (40.00%) z/OS Systems Programmer
2 1 (20.00%) DB2 DBA
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
2 1 (20.00%) IBM Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Mainframe Support
2 1 (20.00%) Remote Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) ISPF
2 1 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (20.00%) LPAR
2 1 (20.00%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) zOS
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JCL
2 4 (80.00%) REXX
3 2 (40.00%) Assembly Language
4 1 (20.00%) CLIST
4 1 (20.00%) COBOL
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) RACF
2 2 (40.00%) ACF2
3 1 (20.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (20.00%) Microcode
3 1 (20.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) OMEGAMON
2 1 (20.00%) MAINVIEW
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) IBM
2 3 (60.00%) Broadcom
3 2 (40.00%) Splunk
4 1 (20.00%) BMC
4 1 (20.00%) Brocade
4 1 (20.00%) CA
4 1 (20.00%) Dell